Claire Coutinho

The Right Honourable

Claire Coutinho

MP
Official portrait, 2019
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
Assumed office
8 July 2024
LeaderRishi Sunak
Kemi Badenoch
Preceded byEd Miliband
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
In office
31 August 2023 – 5 July 2024
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byGrant Shapps
Succeeded byEd Miliband
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing
In office
28 October 2022 – 31 August 2023
Prime MinisterRishi Sunak
Preceded byKelly Tolhurst
Succeeded byDavid Johnston
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People, Health and Work
In office
21 September 2022 – 28 October 2022
Prime MinisterLiz Truss
Preceded byChloe Smith
Succeeded byTom Pursglove
Member of Parliament
for East Surrey
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded bySam Gyimah
Majority7,450 (15.1%)[1]
Personal details
Born
Claire Coryl Julia Coutinho

(1985-07-08) 8 July 1985 (age 39)
London, England
Political partyConservative
Alma materExeter College, Oxford
Websitewww.clairecoutinho.com

Claire Coryl Julia Coutinho (born 8 July 1985) is a British politician and former investment banker. She was the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero from August 2023 to July 2024. She is a member of the Conservative Party. Coutinho has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Surrey since 2019.

She was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People from September to October 2022 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing from October 2022 to August 2023.

Coutinho was born on 8 July 1985 in London.[2][3] Her parents emigrated from India in the late 1970s and are from Goa.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Results for a UK general election on 4 July 2024: England - by majority". UK Parliament. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "Members Sworn". UK Parliament. 18 December 2019. Archived from the original on 19 December 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  3. ↑ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2019: the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  4. ↑ Pandit, Shiladitya (15 December 2019). "After UK polls, Pune family gets its first MP from East Surrey". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 September 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  5. ↑ Cuniffe, Rachel (20 November 2023). "The quiet ruthlessness of Claire Coutinho". The New Statesman. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2024.